Science and technology

Three tech-savvy women granted awards for innovation

Three women have been granted awards for their contributions to the technology sector in Cambodia. Fat Si Em, a transport and planning manager at a telecomm company, won the ICT Engineer Award; Long Leakhena, a businesswoman, won the Woman ICT Entrepreneur award; and Chan Penh ...

Malis Tum
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/three-tech-savvy-women-granted-awards-for-innovation/4287750.html

Outpost Cambodia launches startup sponsorship competition

The co-working and co-living space Outpost Cambodia announced details of a startup competition today that will offer a winning company free 24/7 access to a desk for up to six people for six months in its workspace on Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar peninsula, four specialised consultations with ...

Euan Black
http://sea-globe.com/outpost-cambodia/

Local SMEs are urged to digitise payments

Cambodian businesses need to adapt and digitise their financial operations if they want to remain competitive regionally and around the world, industry insiders said yesterday. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-smes-are-urged-digitise-payments

Post Media shifts focus to digital

With sweeping changes across Cambodia’s publishing industry, Marcus Holmes, CEO of Post Media, will be steering the publication through a “digital first” agenda that will transform the iconic publication into one that is faster and more effective in reaching its audience.​ ...

Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/business-insider-post-media-shifts-focus-digital

Anti-fraud software firm draws major clients

A year after a local technology company introduced new software to combat financial crime in Cambodia, four banks have started using the system to fight against money laundering and terrorism financing, the company’s executive said yesterday. ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/anti-fraud-software-firm-draws-major-clients

Garment buyers asked to bring in tech

The government is calling on international buyers to increase investment in the garment and footwear sector and to introduce new technologies to help modernise the industry, according to a senior official from the Ministry of Commerce (MoC). ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5090886/garment-buyers-asked-bring-tech/

UN extolls power of tech in goals to development

Private-sector investment into technology can help developing countries meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), representatives said yesterday at a conference, sparking debate on how Cambodian entrepreneurs can incorporate humanitarian goals into core business operations. ...

Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/un-extolls-power-tech-goals-development

New MoU with Korea for tech centre

The Ministry of Industry and Handicraft will cooperate with two South Korean high-tech companies to establish a technology centre with the aim of facilitating the exchange of information on the development of optic cable technology. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5087660/new-mou-korea-tech-centre/

HR forum sees role for digital technology

Business should embrace digital strategies that can improve the speed and efficiency of human resource management activities, speakers at a conference on the impact of digital transformation on human resources said yesterday. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hr-forum-sees-role-digital-technology

Kingdom’s prospects for fintech discussed

While financial technology, or fintech, has made little traction so far in Cambodia, panellists at a conference in Phnom Penh on Friday expressed confidence that the sector was poised for rapid growth.​ ...

Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-prospects-fintech-discussed

Regional ‘think tank’ launched to advise on China Mekong initiative

The Global Center for Mekong Studies (GCMS) comprises six leading regional “think tanks”: the China Institute for International Studies (CIIS); the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP); the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV); the Laos Institute of Foreign Affairs (IFA); the Myanmar Institute of ...

Aun Chhengpor
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/regional-think-tank-launched-to-advise-on-china-mekong-initiative/4050041.html

Japan to aid Institute of Technology

The Japan International Cooperation Agency has signed an agreement with the Institute of Technology of Cambodia to strengthen engineering education and research for industrial development. ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5083803/japan-aid-institute-technology/

Space tech to aid park preservation

The Apsara Authority has extended an agreement with China’s International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage to continue using its remote sensing technology to discover and preserve ancient temples in Siem Reap province.​ ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5083666/space-tech-aid-park-preservation/

Industry 4.0: Executives on how ‘smart factories’ will impact Cambodia

The next industrial revolution will introduce “smart factories” in which computers and robotics communicating wirelessly will handle physical processes with very little input from human operators, leaving few job opportunities for unskilled workers, executives of German industrial giants said during a briefing in Phnom Penh ...

Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/industry-40-executives-how-smart-factories-will-impact-cambodia

Chinese nuclear pact in the works

Cambodia and China are close to inking an agreement that would bring the Kingdom another step closer to developing its own nuclear technology, officials said yesterday, although it would not be used initially to bolster its electricity production. ...

Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chinese-nuclear-pact-works

Cambodia, China looking for MoU on nuclear power cooperation

Cambodia’s relevant officials of the Ministry of Environment have been working closely with their Chinese counterparts for a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on nuclear power cooperation. ...

Khan Sophirom
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=107890

Young urged to learn more tech skills

Labour Minister Ith Samheng yesterday urged young people to take up technical training to address severe shortages in the jobs market. He said there are 113 institutes for technical skills training nationwide, which could accommodate 50,000 students per year. However, there is a lack of interest from ...

Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39941/young-urged-to-learn-more-tech-skills/

South Korean firm to share tech expertise

The Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts and the South Korea-based firm Gwangju TechoPark will soon reach a deal on improving technology in Cambodia’s special economic zones.   ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39921/south-korean-firm-to-share-tech-expertise/

Room for growth in innovation

Cambodia lags behind much of the world in terms of innovation, placing last among other countries in Asia despite significant inflows of foreign investment capital that could be used to develop innovative technologies, according to a new report. ...

Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/room-growth-innovation

Vertiv announces rebranding

Vertiv, formerly known as Emerson Network Power, officially announced its new branding on Wednesday in Cambodia to tap more markets in the country’s fast developing economy.Vertiv is a global provider of infrastructure technologies for vital applications in data centres, communication networks, and commercial and industrial ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38734/vertiv-announces-rebranding/

Youth keying into digital economy

Southeast Asia’s youthful population is embracing the internet and rapidly connecting to the digital economy, creating enormous potential for economic growth throughout the region, panellists at the World Economic Forum on Asean said yesterday. Addressing a panel discussion on “The Asean Dream”, Kao Kim Hourn, the ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/youth-keying-digital-economy

Nuclear aid from Moscow takes shape

Russia has announced a wide range of measures to help establish an information center in Phnom Penh as part of Cambodia’s development of nuclear energy. ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37692/nuclear-aid-from-moscow-takes-shape/

Investors start to see potential returns in Cambodian Startups

Lack of trust from investors has so far limited the growth potential of the growing number of Cambodian technology startups. Five-year old Khmerload, a Cambodian entertainment news website modeled after the American media giant Buzzfeed, has become one of the country’s first local tech startups ...

Sophat Soeung and Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/investors-start-to-see-potential-returns-in-cambodian-startups/3804195.html

$5 mil Smart fund launched for start-ups

Smart Axiata, Cambodia’s leading telecommunications company, yesterday launched a $5 million venture capital fund for digital service companies and start-ups in the country. The Smart Axiata Digital Innovation Fund aims to meet demands for cash and expertise as the number of Cambodian digital entrepreneurs increases rapidly. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37001/-5-mil--smart-fund-launched-for-start-ups/

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